Gartner Invitation Kits

It sounds like I did the same invites as the poster above. I, too, had the ribbons and little ring. Laying out the invites in Word was not so bad but remember that you may have to change the paper size for your printer as well as in Word. Also, my ink jet would sometimes take up the paper crooked (which is not the falut of the invite paper). Just remember to go slow and start early! But, they do look good once they're done. I also decided to go to PaperSource and purchase A9 blank envelopes to use for outer envelopes, since outer envelopes are not included in the kit.

http://www.gartnerstudios.com/

Gartner Invitations, programs, water bottle labels and thank you cards are so easy to do and all coordinate. They are a great way to add personalization to a wedding without the big price tag.

Our personalized water bottles were a big hit, and gartner makes brown bags that say welcome to our wedding. We left welcome bags in our guest hotel rooms.

Although their products are sold at Target, Walmart, and Michaels... i prefer the website. They also have cute ideas posted on the site and it is really great to find the additional items that you can't always find in stores.

We didn't want to spend a lot of money on invitations so we decided to do our own. I am not the best at being a perfectionist, so I knew that we had to go with a box set. We bought them on clearance at Target and held on to them for a while. We did decide to buy the ribbon and sparkly ring accessory kit.

I have gotten so many compliments on the invitations, it is unbelievable. People really talk crap about the do it yourself box invites, but everyone loved mine. I did take ALOT of time to make everything lined up and formatted properly, but I paid under $100 for 150 invitations.

So here is my advice:

1. Start early so you have plenty of time to change things.

1.A. Be sure to be comfortable in whatever computer program you are using. If you don't know how to fix formatting errors, don't try this on your own.

2. PROOF READ print out samples and ask other people to look at them to make sure that everything is correct. I suggest posting your wording on weddingchannel.com so that Chad (the guru of wording) can critique it.

3. Give yourself time to assemble. The pretty little ribbon peices made the invites look great, but they were a pain in my butt and took forever.

4. Take a sample- addressed to yourself and mail it to yourself to see what shape they arrive in. Also go to the post office and have them weigh the envelope. My Extra decor cost me an extra .13 at the post office because there was something poking out of the envelope.

Gartner provides Easy to follow instructions on their DIY kits- we were pleased with the finished product. We used them for both our invitations and our save-the-dates.